Boy gored to death in inner-city Dublin

Dublin, 12 February 1915 - A boy who was playing behind his house in Dublin city was today gored to death by a cow.

James Driscoll (11) of Railway Street, was playing in Elliott Place to the rear of Corporation Buildings, when he fell into a trough. A cow feeding in the trough at the time furiously attacked him and inflicted a gaping wound with one of her horns near the boy’s heart. He was dead on arrival at Jervis Street Hospital.

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]